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Belfast schools set for 2019 Choir of the Year competition

15th & 16th May

The St Anne Trust will welcome pupils and staff from 10 local schools to Belfast Cathedral on May 15 and 16 to participate in the annual ‘Belfast Primary Schools’ Choir of the Year’ competition.

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Bishop of Connor launches his third book

The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, launched his latest book, The Jewel in the Mess, at the Spectrum Centre in north Belfast on Tuesday May 7.

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St Fin Barre’s Cathedral Choir tour to Hamburg and Lübeck

The choir of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, travelled to Germany in Easter week.

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New rector appointed to Kilroot and Templecorran

The Rev Nigel Kirkpatrick, rector of St Dorothea’s Parish, Gilnahirk, Diocese of Down and Dromore, has been appointed rector of the Grouped Parishes of Kilroot and Templecorran, Connor Diocese.

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Bishop Harold Miller urges progress as leaders resume talks

All–party discussions with the aim of restoring the Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, will start today, 7 May 2019.

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Millennials in the Church in rural Ireland

West Cork rector undertakes research for masters degree

Following three years of part–time study in the Irish Bible Institute (IBI), the Rev Cliff Jeffers, Rector of Fanlobbus Union of Parishes, Dunmanway, County Cork, completed a masters degree in transformational leadership, awarded by the University of York St John.

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St Bartholomew’s, Stranmillis, celebrates its centenary

St Bartholomew’s Parish, Stranmillis, will be celebrating 100 years of worship and witness with a series of events over the weekend of May 10–12.

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Maundy gift was humbling, says Connor parishioner

Mr Jim Patterson, a parishioner of St Mark’s, Ballysillan, Diocese of Connor, said he was ‘very humbled’ to receive a Maundy purse from Her Majesty the Queen in Windsor last month.

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18th century Freke Estate Survey digitized

On Saturday 27th April in Castle Freke, County Cork, by kind invitation of the Hon Stephen Evans–Freke, an event took place to launch the digitization of the Freke Estate Survey of 1787/88 by Thomas Sherrard.

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Countdown to 400 Miles 4 Uganda cycle

3rd–7th May from Mizen to Malin

A team from the Hub Chaplaincy at Queen’s University, Belfast, is counting down to the start of their mega cycle from the bottom of Ireland to its very top. 400 Miles 4 Uganda will raise funds for Abaana and Waakisa, charities working with children and young women in Uganda.

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